Richmond · cafés · from £500
Weekend visitors from the Green and the river check two things: whether you are open, and what is on the menu. If the site is a pretty photo with no hours, they walk to the next door.
A café website is a noticeboard that has to stay true. Hours change. The kitchen runs out. Allergens matter. The page should make the current menu, the last sitting, and how to find you from Richmond station obvious on a phone.
Richmond upon Thames draws a weekday commuter crowd and a much larger weekend walk-up from Richmond Park, the riverside and Richmond Green. That weekend traffic does not have time for a buried PDF. The menu needs to live on the page, in type they can zoom.
I build the public site and a private page so you can swap a weekend brunch list or a closed-Monday note yourself. You start with a free homepage mock-up and a fixed written quote. You do not pay until you accept it.
People are often already in town, standing on Hill Street or walking up from the station. The site should settle “are you open and what can we eat” in under a minute.
Plates, drinks, and allergen notes in real text — not a photograph of a chalkboard that smears in sunlight. You should be able to change a sold-out item without calling a developer.
Weekday and weekend hours, last kitchen sitting, and bank-holiday notes. Richmond’s Saturday is a different business to a Tuesday morning.
The Green, the riverside, the station. A pin and a short line of landmarks is enough; they do not need a history of the parish.
Say whether weekend brunch is walk-in only, or whether a larger table should email. Ambiguity here is how you get a full inbox of “have you got space at 11?”
Link your Google profile so visitors see current reviews next to today’s hours and menu.
Richmond sits on the Thames with Richmond Green, Richmond Hill and Richmond Park close enough that a lot of custom is people already out for a walk. George Street and Hill Street are the usual town-centre loop.
The site has to work for someone who just looked at a closing time on the door and wants to confirm it, and for someone planning a Saturday from a kitchen in another borough. Same page, two jobs: hours and menu first, story second.
A page you can keep true when the menu changes is what helps: hours, last sitting, and dishes in text you can edit on a Monday morning.
Launch from £500 is the public site you update yourself — the right starting point when the homepage can carry the menu, hours and a find-us note. Extra pages for a drinks list, private hire, or a fuller story sit in a higher band. Which private admin tools come with that band is agreed in the quote, not tied to a named tool on a named package.
Launch from £500
A public website you can update yourself.
Scale £1,495
More pages, plus more of the private admin you choose after we talk.
Connect £2,395
A wider admin set when the day-to-day needs more than one extra tool.
Operate £3,295
Another step up when several parts of the business need to live in one login.
Automate £4,145
The fullest website band when you want more of the admin working together.
Scale is £1,495, Connect £2,395, Operate £3,295 and Automate £4,145. The written quote lists the pages and the admin that are in. Nothing is payable until you accept it.
More on what a business website includes is on the business websites page.
Yes, in text you can edit. A photo of a paper menu is hard to read on a phone and goes stale the first time a dish comes off. A short “kitchen until” line next to the hours saves a lot of “are you still serving?” messages.
Open or closed, last sitting, the current menu, and a pin. Atmosphere can sit below that. People coming off a Richmond Park walk are deciding in the street, not reading a brand story.
Only if you already take them. Many Richmond cafés are walk-in; the honest line is “walk-ins, larger tables please email”. If you do want requests on the site, that goes in the quote as a page or an admin tool — not as a surprise add-on after you have accepted a price.
Send the hours you actually keep and a sketch of the menu. I will mock up a homepage that leads with both, then send a fixed written quote.